Improvement in portable fountains and lawn-sprinklers



R. BRUSIE.

Portable Fountains and Lawn-Sprinklers.

N0. l37,I75, PatentedMarch 25,1873.

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RUSSELL BRUSIE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN PQRTABLE FOUNTAINS AND LAWN-SPRINKLERS Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 137,175, dated March 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, RUssELL Bnnsrn, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Portable Fountain and Lawn-Sprinkler, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists in an improved arrangement of the orifices in the rotating arms from which the water is discharged, whereby a much larger space can be sprinkled; and also in a device for counteracting the friction on the journals of the revolving parts of the fountain.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved fountain and lawnsprinkler; Fig. 2 is a sectional view of Fig. 3, of the perforated cap on the ends of the radial arms 0 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a plan view of the outer ends of said caps, showing the varying number and arrangement of the orifices d in the same; and Fig, at is a transverse section of one of the arms (3, Fig. 1, showing the double row of perforations on the saine at angles oppositely inclined.

As represented in the drawing, A is the base of the apparatus, which may be of any ornamental design, the feet of which a e preferably furnished with spikes or spurs for inserting in the ground, to retain the fountain in position. 13 is the vertical tubular standard of the fountain, having a shoulder at b and a coupling, a, at itslower part for connecting it with a flexible hose attached to the water-supply. The arms 0 radiate from and open into the hollow ring 0, which ring rests on the truncated conical top of the standard B, their surfaces corresponding with eachother, and ground to prevent the escape of water at that part. On the outer ends of the arms are secured perforated caps D D' D D shown in section in Fig. 2 and in plan in Fig. 3, the perforations or orifices in which vary in number from two to five, and in their angles of inclination from ten degrees to sixty degrees, or thereabout, as shown. The ball 0 or other suitable or ornamental device is screwed on the top of the standard and serves to retain the ring 0 in place and close the tubular standard, so that all the water is distributed laterally.

The water finds access to the ring 0 from the tubular standard B through a series of perforations in its truncated conical top. From the ring a the water enters the arms 0, and

from thence is discharged through the vari ously-inclined perforations on their sides and ends.

The arms revolve by the reaction of the water on its escape therefrom, on the wellknown principle of the reaction-wheel.

The reaction of the water issuing from the downwardlyinclined perforations d on the sides of the arms 0 (best seen in Fig. 4) tends to raise as well as revolve the same, andthus partly counteract their weight and the consequent friction of the ring 0.

The water issuing from the sides of the arms sprinkles a circle close to the base of the fountain and of a radius equal to their length, while that issuing from the perforated caps on the ends of the arms is thrown in concentric circles, one arm throwing beyond the other according to the inclination of its perforations, those perforations least inclined to the perpendicular throwing the water furthest from the center, and vice versa. It will be seen, upon reference to Figs. 2 and 3, that the orifices which are least inclined to the perpendicular are of the greatest number, as D Figs. 2 and 3, while those which are most inclined are of the smallest number, as D. The reason for this is obvious, as the arm having the least-inclined perforations throws the furthest from the center, has an annular space of greater radius and surface to sprinkle, necessarily requires a greater quantity of water to effect the purpose, and vice versa.

With the orifices thus arranged a large space may be sprinkled by a very moderatelysized apparatus.

I do not confine myself to any specific arrangement of the orifices, either as to their number or their angles of inclination, as various arrangementstof both may be used to advantage.

What I claim as my invention is as follows:

In a revolving lawn-sprinkler, a series of discharge-orifices having an inclination varying with its different arms and of variable number, substantially as shown and described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

RUSSELL BR USIE. Witnesses:

OnAs. E. Ponoirnn, CHAS, M. HIGGINS. 

